Test Topic 3 (last part) & Topic 4

Invited lectures : Demonstration

- Multiple decision makers

- Collaborative management planning

- Ecosystems services

Practice Problem #2  - resolution

Revision Topic 4

Structure of decision making process -Sustainable management

Multi-objective planning of ecosystems management

Logística Florestal. Cadeia de abastecimento e sua Gestão. Cadeias de abastecimento de produtos florestais. Colheita, transporte e transformação. Os intervenientes nas Cadeias de abastecimento de produtos florestais. Níveis de planeamento e de tomada de decisão: estratégico, táctico e operacional. O caso das indústrias de pasta e papel. O caso do transporte florestal. Custos e eficiência. Referência aos sistemas logísticos de biomassa florestal.

Operational Planning in Forestry

Forest Logistics

Planeamento Operacional. Introdução à Logística.

Definições de Logística. Interface entre Gestão de Operações e logística. Processo logístico. Avaliação do sistema logístico. Fluxos de materiais e de informação em logística.

Cadeia de valor e sistema de valor. Marketing, logística e produção.

Test 2 - second part of Topic 3

Introduction to integer programming (IP)

The branch and Bound Algorithm - IP examples

Spatial Applications

Reserve selection example

A Profit-Maximization Problem

 Interpreting the Solution to the Example with a longer planning horizon

´* Lecture shared with prof. Marc Mc Dill from Pennstate University, State college, USA

A four-period profit-maximizing harvest scheduling model

LP Model| Cost-maximization application with a longer planning horizon

Cost- Minimizing Problem - Interpreting the Solution to the Example

* Lecture shared with Prof. Marc Mc Dill from Pennstate University, State college, USA.

A two-period cost-minimizing harvest scheduling model 

LP Model| Cost-minimizing application

* Lecture shared with Prof. Marc Mc Dill from Pennstate University, State college, USA.

- Extraordinary class at tuesday, November 22th, 2006 (8:00 - 10:30)

~Lecture shared with Profesor Marc Mc. Dill from PennState University , State College , USA

A two-period cost-minimizing harvest scheduling model

LP Model| Cost-minimizing application

Strategic Forest Planning – Profit-maximizing harvest scheduling model

 Profit-maximizing harvest scheduling model

Solving the profit-maximizing model with spreadsheet

Interpreting computer solutions to the profit maximization-problems harvest scheduling model

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Lecture shared with Professor Manuel Arias-Rodil, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, SPain

Profit-maximizing harvest scheduling model

Planning period and the planning horizon

A profit-maximization Model – exercises

Accounting rows, non-negativity, resource and policy constraints (harvest fluctuation)

LP case studies - spreadsheet solution

Interpreting Computer Solutions of LP Problems

Forest regulation

Lecture shared with Professor Manuel Arias-Rodil, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

LP - The Simplex Method

Reduced Cost, Slack or Surplus variables

Dual problem

|Strategic Forest Planning - Introduction to Linear Programming

LP case studies with two (formulation, graphical solution) and more decision variables (formulation)

Lecture shared with Professor Ulises Dieguéz-Aranda , Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Introduction to Linear Programming (LP) - decision variables, objective function, constraints, linear equations

Formulating and solving LP problems

LP case study with two decision variables (formulation)

A General LP problem - Assumptions of LP

LP case study with two decision variables (graphical solution ‑feasible region and best solution- and detached coefficient matrix)

TEST I - Topic 1 & Topic 2

Revisions Topic 1 and Topic 2

Practice Problem set #1 & # 2  - resolution

|Classical approaches for FM planning - terminology /several measures

 Valuing and characterizing forest conditions

• Projecting inventory growth :
• The yield curve properties
• The annual increment
• The Mean Annual Increment (MAI) - Optimal Biological Rotation
  
• The Periodic Annual Increment (PAI)
• % Growth rate
  

Practice Problem set #2 - resolution

Feriado!

Financial analysis problems with inflation 

Real and nominal interest rate -  Deflating vs inflating problems

|Forest management and Conservation - economic concepts

    Economic evaluation of NR

 |Natural resource as capital      

Financial analysis criteria

       Present and future values:

        - Time preference

  -  Discounting versus compounding formulas:

            Dichotomous key selecting appropriate formula:
    (Single sum formula,  n-period sum formula, Infinite Annual Series, Infinite Periodic Series, Finite Annual Series , Finite Periodic Series)

   - Solving Financial Analysis Problems -  Lab. 1

Valuing non-market forest and services

Contingent valuation , Travel cost and trade-off analysis examples

|Environmental and social evaluation of natural resource:

- Market and forest resources allocation: Supply and demand

- Relative and market values  

- Optimal levels of environmental damage: solution of monetary damage vs non-monetary damage

|Introduction to the course Natural Resource Management (NRM) :
Course outline, objectives, calendar, evaluation, bibliography and office hours

|Introduction to Ecosystem management planning (MP):

- Challenges and planning principles related to Natural Resource management

- Research projects – examples